Between the Doleuze family and the Prix de Diane, it’s quite a story. Georges, the father of Romain, who will saddle his first runner on Sunday in this prestigious Group I, won the event, reserved for the best 3-year-old fillies, in 1979 with Dunette. Following his success, to everyone’s surprise, he then baptized his daughter Diane, born in 1980 and who died in 2001, “because it was a victory that counted a lot in his career”, according to the coach since 2014, installed in Deauville (Calvados).
“He won 80/1 and holds the record for the highest odds,” continues Romain Le Dren-Doleuze. It is also the year of my birth. He tells us about this day at all family meals. His brother, Olivier, also climbed to the top step of the podium in 2000 with Egyptband. A moment that Romain is not about to forget: “From Saint-Malo where I rode, we shouted very loudly while following the race with my father, who even picked up the television in the locker room (laughs). In the evening, we joined Olivier in a Greek restaurant in Paris and we broke plates for good luck. »
So, as much to say that the 42-year-old man will be won over by emotion in the event of success, on Sunday, at the Chantilly racecourse (Oise). “It’s the best race I could win in my career, the Holy Grail. I dream of it from a sporting and emotional point of view, thinking very strongly of my mother and my sister, ”confides the person whose hopes rest on Nadette (n ° 16).
“We bought it for 17,000 euros at sales in Deauville in 2021, he says. Her owner Marco Saviozzi named her Nadette after her mother Bernadette. She impressed me in the Prix de Finland (Listed), ahead of fillies who repeated. It is also manageable and will have its terrain. My dad will be present at Chantilly, and I hope to give him a nice gift for Father’s Day…”